The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-05
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FLAvIuS JOSEPIIUS mas Dcen nppoiuteu " |
postmastership in Maine.
ONE county in Missouri produced s5O,OoO
worth OF castor oil last year.
AN Icelander is in Washington Territory
looking for place to locate u colony.
SHOES made of rice straw are worn by the
laboring people in the south OF CHINA.
GAS and coal have been discovered IN
good quantities near Ossawotamic, Kan.
THE remains of Baltimore editor were
sold for ten dollars to medical college.
THE city council of st. Louis has fixed
eight hours as legal work day for city
laborers.
A FIRM of perfume manufacturers are
about to establish n vast flower plantation
in Florida.
A ApuYsIcIAN says "If child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil it," This is too
severe on the child.
ASPHALT has been discovered in Morgan
County, Ala. 1t is the only known deposit
in the United States.
Mrs. MARGARET j. PRESTON, the we'll
known Southern writer, is threatened
with total blindness.
THE Great Eastern, which cost at her
sompletion in 1859, "a 900 OOO has been sold |
at auction for Sl3O, coo.
IT is generally conceded that if France |
and Germany fight, Russia will walk of
with good slice of pie.
THE average age of those who enter col
lege in this country is seventeen. A cen
tury ago it was fourteen.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL is advocating the
emigration of unmarried women from
England to the British colonies.
THE rolling mills throughout Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio are crowd
ed with orders for several weeks.
THE Colorado supreme court has decided
that women can not act as notaries public
in that State under existing laws.
HERR MosT's fine of $1,000 has been paid
and it is expected that he will be released
from the penitentary on the 2Sth of March.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is of the opinion that
we should first obtain guns, and then the
matter Of Notifications might be consd-
cred.
MAJOR BEN: PERLEY PooRE tells "Gath"
that every President who called an extra
session of Congress failed to get renomi-
mated.
THE indications are that the railroads
will soon be tumbling over one another in
their eagerness to bounce the deadly stove
from their cars.
IT is stated that the Car of Russia ae-
cretly visited Paris and had an interview
with President Grevy, recently. He trav-
eled in disguise.
SERGEANT SMITH, of Richmond, Va, has
been fined $50 for permitting more persons
to witness the execution of Cluverius
than allowed by law.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis are fighting
for the State Capital. The latter city in
tends offering a site and building costinl
$2,0O0,000 to the State free.
GOVERNOR DAVIS, the new Senator-elect
from Minnesota, is a much younger man
than Ben Butler, but almost his exact
counterpart in appearance.
PROF. ALEXANDER declares that he has
sounded the extinct crater near the lepeI
settlement at Molokai, and line $500 feet
long remained taut and failed to reach the
bottom.
A GIRL has just been arrested in New
York for stealing the watch and jewelry OF
a friend, and the fact was that she had
pawned them to get money to bury .heI
mother.
Miss CARRIE DUKE, the daughter of the
famous Confederate General Basil Duke
is wonderful player on the violin, and is
now entertaining her friends at the Ma
tional Capital.
The abolition of the free pass system by
the railroads will, it is said, be feature
of the enforcement of the Interstate com
merce law, over which a strong legal Ques
tion will be raised.
THE library of George Washington, pur
chased in 1S4S at a cost of 5000, is one o
the many interesting collections whic
have come into the possession Of the Bos
ton Atheneum Library.
PRINCESS CoLoNNA, the daughter of Mr.!
]. w. Mackay, is to accompany her hu!
band to this country in the spring. He
coming over to look after his railroad il
terests in Mexico and Texas.
A WESTERN man sent in to an editor q
item to the effect that his fortieth weddin
anniversary would be observed on q ce
tain day, but the printer inadvertently le
out the word ANNIVERSARY"
JOHN G.. CALHOUN, of South Carolin
grandson of the great nullifer, has the Sc
ond largest cotton field in the Unit,
States. He was Captain in the Confe
crate service at eighteen and is now fort
one.
Mr.. CHAs. GALLOWAY, of Winchester, v;
was so overcome by the receipt of a te
gram that she dropped dead Had S
waited to open it she would simply ha
found that her sister was coming on
visit.
THE Treasury Department decides tf
finished photographs from negatives TAX
for citizens of the United States while v
iting the Canadian side of Niagara Fa
must pay duty when sent to the purch
ers in this country.
Two men who were in Lincoln's Cabii
still live. One is Hannibal Hamlin, W
acted as his Vice President and who
very happy among his books and trt
streams in Maine, and the other is Sin
Cameron, who is now in the lBermudas
his health.
SAN JONES says, "David was a great s
ner, but David was magnificent
penter." And when the compostor ms
him say David was magnificent g
peater," Samuel waxed wroth.
AN Illinois school-teacher has Marie
girl whom he whipped so severely so
years ago that he was arrested and lin
All things come to her who waits and
young woman has at last got even.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD child in CoalpOrt,
has, apparently, no bones. 1t folds
legs behind its head as readily as OF
persons fold their arms in the same pla
il uses it's feet TO scratch its head quite
often as it uses its hands, and comforts
body In q most remarkable way.
A BnooKLyN alderman is accused
wearing bit Of plate-glass as a diamo